Individual time preference determines schooling enrolment. Moreover, smoking behavior in early ages has been shown to … be highly related to time preference rates. Accordingly, we use smoking at age 16 as an instrument for schooling in order …

that the general adult male mortality crisis in the region had a 'feedback' effect on suicide rates, with the loss of a …

A number of studies suggest that mortality rates among East German men increased in the wake of reunification, in … mortality and cause of death statistics based on detailed regional data. The results indicate that there was indeed an increase … in mortality rates which cannot be dismissed as a statistical artefact. Next, the paper discusses various theories …